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Rubbers meets the Rhode
Senate President Dominick “Rubbers” Ruggerio has introduced legislation in Rhode Island’s General Assembly to bar cities and towns from bothering the developers who want to screw this state’s localities and their citizens. Ruggerio was dumbfounded by the meanies of the … Continue reading
Final say on Fane design?
Fane tower supporters left Monday night’s meeting in full glum after the city’s design panel recommended against approving three of four Fane requests for exemptions from zoning that could kill the project. Opponents left in full euphoria, in the belief … Continue reading
Fane theater of the absurd
Monday afternoon’s meeting of the Downtown Design Review Committee was the city’s first official look, in a public setting, at the design of Jason Fane’s proposed luxury condo tower. The meeting was pure theater of the absurd. It was as … Continue reading
The path now against Fane
The Providence City Council has overridden Mayor Elorza’s brave veto of a bill to allow developer Jason Fane to proceed with a tower that plainly violates city zoning law. The building would no longer violate the height limit for Parcel … Continue reading
Politics of the Fane override
When a pro-Fane tower councilman called in sick for Tuesday’s vote on whether to override Mayor Elorza’s brave veto of the Fane tower legislation, the council postponed the vote until tomorrow, Thursday, Dec. 13. Having spouted my opposition to the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development
Tagged City Hall, City Politics, Fane Tower, Jason Fane, Mayor Elorza, Providence City Council, Providence RI, Zoning
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Mayor Elorza’s brave veto
To the surprise of most observers, Mayor Elorza vetoed the Providence City Council’s approval last week of legislation to raise by a factor of six the 100-foot height limit on Parcel 42 of the Route 195 corridor. That legislation, a … Continue reading
Lovely Rita, meter maid!
Parking meters on blocks of shops in Providence are not only purging business. It seems as if lovely Rita the Meter Maid may be going the way of the Dodo. I hope not. Friday I drove downtown to shoot the … Continue reading
Posted in Providence, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Ken Dulgarian, Mayor Elorza, Parking, Parking Lots, Parking Meters, Providence RI, Public Transit, Urban Planning
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The 4th w/out the Overture
I am still suffering from Tchaikovsky’s Retreat from Providence. Last year the Rhode Island Philharmonic gave a bravura performance of “The 1812 Overture” for the city’s Fourth of July celebration at India Point Park. Not this year. I have no … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Video
Tagged 1812 Overture, Independence Day, India Point Park, July 4, Mayor Elorza, Music, Providence, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky
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Roses and raspberries, 2015
If the objective were to build beauty, the past year has served Providence poorly. Since the fault is mainly in the office of the new governor, Gina Raimondo, Providence’s mayor, Jorge Elorza, can be absolved of some of the blame, … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Blast from past, Development, Preservation, Providence, Providence Journal, Rhode Island, Urbanism and planning
Tagged 1-195 Corridor, Blackstone Boulevard, Dan Morales, Dr. Downtown, Governor Raimondo, Jim Skeffington, Kennedy Plaza, Mayor Elorza, Michael Rouchell, PawSox, Providence RI, Rhode Island, Richard Ventrone, Roses and Raspberries, Superman Building
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Better lights for Providence
Not long after starting to write about architecture in 1990 I would occasionally hector the city fathers in Providence to use sodium vapor bulbs in downtown’s historic lamps, as was and still is done on Benefit Street. That, I thought, … Continue reading
